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f . "T F" "" '"l""' jyj l SEMI-WEE KLY TO WN AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES AIL HOME PRINT. : V0LU3IE XXXIV MIGHTIEST SHIP BUILT CAN SINK A SQUADRON if hat New Warship Can Do and What It Can Do It With. (Washington Special.), The battleships Neveda, Utah, Flo rida, Delaware, Wyoming, Arkansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota are con sidered first-class fighting ships. On ly a few years ago they were launch ed and America acclaimed them the last word in warshfp construction and the best ships afloat, but if that entire grand fleet met the Idaho, Uncle Sam's latest fighting craft, and gave battle there would be nothing left of them except wreckage and a few surviving sailors. The Idaho is the largest and most powerful ship afloat. Twelve fourteen-inch guns have the longest range of any naval 'guns in the world and can sink hostile craft at a distance of fifteen miles. Each of the guns hurls a 1500 pound steel projectile through the air at the rate of 2800 feet a sec ond. Nine tons of steel can be hurled from the big guns every twenty seconds. GKAXVILLE COUNTY SOLDIER AVAS KILLED IN ACTION IMvate Charles Woodley Was Popu lar With His Company. Private John A. Bullock, Company F, 322 infantry, A. P. O. 791, A. E. F in a letter to Mr. Lewis Woodley February 8, confirms the report that Charlie Woodley was killed in action He says: "Your son was killed on Novem ber 11, 1918. The telegram notify ing you of his death was correct. He was a good boy and made many friends in his company. We miss him very much. I was wounded in the mouth November 10th and was sent to a hospital. Two of my teeth were shot out, but I am getting along nicely. We are having some very cold weather over here just now, and we are anxious to get home as soon as possible." MEN TO PARADE IN RALEIGH. Granville County Boys Coming Home From France. At least one regiment of the North Carolina; troops, according to the promise of Secretary Baker, will be paraded at Raleigh before demobili zation at Camp Jackson. The news that the Thirtieth is com ins: home from France is glad news to many peopie,in this section. Many Granville county boys are in the fam ous Thirtieth and we want to see them home and hear them tell of the great work they did in breaking the Hindenburg line."' In, the days from September until the armistice was signed the Thirtieth Division covered itself with undying glory. No more desperate fighting was done by any of the divisions than was done by the hoys of North and South Carolina and Tennessee. They fought side by side with Twenty-seventh Division, composed of the New Yorkers and Yvhue they did not have as many cas ualties as did the Twenty-seventh, they did some as fine fighting. CAMOUFLAGE HER ANKLES. New York Supreme Court Builds a Four-Foot Board Fence. New York, March 14. Because Mrs. Betty Inch was too generous in the display of her ankles to" jurymen who failed a month ago to agree on a verdict in her trial on a charge of extortion, she found the .witness stand surrounded by a four-foot hoard fence when she appeared yes terday in the Supreme- Court for a second hearing of the case. LT. COOPER IS CONVOYING THIRTIETH DIVISION Col. Henry G. Cooper received a cablegram this week from his son. Lt. Henry G. Cooper, battleship South Carolina, United States Navy, stating that he will arrive in Hamp ton Roads next Tuesday with 1,000 officers and men of the Thirtieth Di vision. poster carrying warning to war stamp owners Here is tne "warning poster" which will be scattered broadcast throughout the country by the war savings stara !p division to protect stamps holders: "You are being cheated if anybody offers you less than $4.26 for a 1918 ar savings stamp. 'We urge you not to cash it. "Jf you must, take it to your post office or war loan organization." Read the advertisement of R. A. Wiggins elsewhere in this paper and see how easily it is to put your f aith- iul old car in readiness for "The Pring Drive" that is soon to take place. THE LAST DAYS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Silver Service Is Presented To Speak er D. G. Bnunmitt, and His Friends Urge Him To Run For Congress. - - v. - (Raleigh Special.) Completely relaxing from the ten sion of work of the past 62 days the Senate of the 1919 session North Carolina general assembly came to a close with glowing colors early Tuesday morning. Adjournment sine die was taken at 1:55 o'clock by the joint session of the house and senate meeting in the senate cham ber. Silver Service. Interspersed with the musical con cert came the customary felicitations and distributions of gifts. President Max Gardner was laden with many beautiful gifts, including a gold headed cahe .from the pages and a handsome silver pitcher J from the members of the senate.. The silver service to Speaker Brummitt was presented by former Lieutenant Gov ernor R. A. Doughton,sof Alleghany county, while Representative McCoin presided. Mr. Brummitt responded in terms of appreciation and expres sions cf the pleasure it had been to him in presiding over the lower house, and of the harmony that had prevailed during the sixty days of the meeting. Brummitt For Congress. It happened in this, namely, viz: Just before adjournment, Doughton, of Alleghany, and Brummitt, of Gran ville, said that they would never a gain return to the legislature. Where upon Ellis Gardner nominated Dough ton for.Governir in 1920 and Brum mitt for Congress. The twain had not explained the object of their re tirement, but one could shut his eyes and write what it all meant. Mr. Doughton who has been coming here for three decades, quits after an al most unbroken service and leaves his case with the people of the state. Brummitt after three times, climax ed by the speakership, is in line for promQtlpiiinhe.Fifth District which is ready for a young man when Major Stedman retires. Incidentally the president of the senate was boomed for governor and F. C. Harding, the senator from Pitt, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. COMING THROUGH THE RYE. Dr. E. T. White Will Cultivate Sev eral Acres This Year. The farmers of Granville county will call to mind the remarkable field of Abruzzi rye grown on Dr. E. T. White's place one mile west of Oxford last year. We don't remem ber at this writing just how many bushels there were to the acre, but we do know that Dr. White was high ly pleased with the . result. He has three or four fine farms in the coun ty and it is his intention to plant five times as much as he planted last year. " Here are a few figures that sustain the good judgment of Dr. White, as handed down by the United States Department of Agriculture: "From 1849 to 1909 rye product ion in the United States was practi cally stationery. From 1909 to 1918 the production was almost tripled, the greatest increase coming in 1917 and 1918. ryWO - oh 21 acres matelv 1 acre of rye for eacn Ji acres nrhoat in th a United States. In 1918 there was approximately 1 acre of rye for each 10 acres of wheat. "The 1918 rye crop was more than 76,000,000 bushels. "The world production of rye am ounts to about one and two-thirds billion bushels, somewhat less than half the annual wheat production. "The United States Department of Agriculture thinks it probable, now that farmers are becoming familiar with the croip and its advantages, that rye will have a permanently lar ger place in American agriculture, and that from an agricultural point of view there should be a further considerable increase in production." 113TH EXPECTED TO LAND AT NEWPORT NEWS MAR. 18 Major Tbad G. Stem Will Reach Home Port Next Week. (Washington Special.) The 113 th field artillery, command a lntr nninnel Cox, which sailed for home March 5, will debark at New-. port News March 18. " - to Camp Jackson for demobilizatxon. THE BALANCE IN HAND. A Few Barrels of Sauer Kraut Will Settle the Difference It is said our bill against Germany tntals $750,000,000, and we are totals low. worth of holding 3uv,vvv,v ww,r -v German stuff. OXFORD, . NORTH CAROLINA, THE TOWN BOARD 'WILL APPOINT KEEPER OF ELMWOOD CEMETERY The Sacred Grounds Will Be Kept In Good Condition. At a meeting pi tne Town Board of Commissioners Tuesday night, Com missioner W. T. Yancey offered the following resolution: "That it is the sense of this Board that Elmwcod Cemetery should be kept in good order; that a keeper be appointed who will give his whole time to keeping the sacred enclosure in good condition; that a fair wage be paid said keeper, who will dig graves at a minimum charge, the funds to revert to the town treasury and the same expended in the up keep of the cemetery." Present at the meeting were : Com missioners Yancey, Ray, McFarland, Parham, Williams, Perkinson. The resolution to appoint a whole-time keeper of the cemetery was adopted by a unanimous vote. In the discussion of the question the commissioners practically agreed that owners of plots in the cemetery would be permitted to confer with the keeper as to the manner in which they desire to have plots kept in or der. Heretofore the gates of the ceme tery have stood open and the aevnues used as a public highway, this in vio lation of the law. This' practice must be stoped, said Mayor Mitchell, and the keeper will be empowered to arrest all such parties. RED CROSS NOTES OF VITAL INTEREST The Granville County Chapter of the American Red Cross is prepared through its home service section to give friendly personal help, comfort, aid and sympathy to the families of our soldiers and sailors. It is the purpose of the home service to play the ."good neighbor" and staunch ; friend to the families when there is ill halth or sudden changes ,in their way of living, and to help maintain good standards of. healthy education and' - industry"." " Home service also undertakes to supply emergent needs. Yet the Home Service is neither a charity or ganization to itve money to families of the soldiers, nor is it a loan insti tution. One of the important needs of sol diers and sailors families, is for in formation on every subject affecting their interests, Information about allotments and allowances, war risk insurance, etc. is vital to these fani ilies. The home service section has already saved untold anxiety and in frequent suffering on the part of the families of the enlisted men, by fur nishing information on matters of interest to the family. Home service is true neighborli ness. No family, is intruded upon, no home is entered without a definate invitation from some one competent to give it. Every record is confiden tial and every effort is made to pro tect the family from idle curiosity and gossip. Home service is a work for the future as well as the present. It is a life-time opportunity for ev ery patriotic American who has at heart the interest of his country and who has a supreme faith in her fu 'ture. The Granville County Chapter is very fortunate in having been able to I secure from Southern Division Mrs. i Benjamin Van Riper, who for several weeks will have charge of the Red Cross home service and civilian re lief work of this chapter. Mrs. Van Riper is splendidly equipped for this work. She was in France nine months in the Red Cross canteen work and has lectured extensively for the Y. M .C. A. She is a grad uate of Boston University and has had some teaching experience in sev eral universities. The office of the Home service committee is in the Brown uBilding, second floor. Office hours 9 to 12. 2 to 5. THE SOLDIERS FEET Bunions, Corns and Ingrowing Nails. An inspection of the feet and shoes of the soldiers of the Thirtieth Divis ion after it crossed the Hindenburg line-showed: Corns, 750; callosities 1,059; toes jammed or crowded, 636; hammer toes, 16; ingrowing nails, 762; bunions, 613;, good feet, 290; men wearing shoes one or more sizes too small, 476; men wearing shoes too large, 131. r The Creedmoor Supply Company announce on another page that they have received their last car of horses and mules for the season, so if you desire to have good stock , to plant and harvest. "this' year's crop you had better see this -lot of horses and mules before they are picked over. FRIDAY, MARCH 14; 1919, LEGISLATURE MADE ABOVE THE AVERAGE RECORD Whole Session Compares Favorably With the Best of Recent Predecessors. :V. The 19 19 session of the general as sembly; passed into history early Tuesday morning with a record of achievement behind it that is prob ably as good if not better then the record of any previous general as sembly.- A good many thinsrs. nf Course, which should have been done were left without the statute books, but taken on the whole a construc tive legislative program which was in keeping with the most progressive thought of the state has been enact ed: into laws. U- Perhaps the biggest work of the 1919 session of the general assembly was the provision for a revaluation of the real and personal property on a basis of real value in money. This 7ill do more to equalize the taxing system in the state than anything pise could have done. It is really the only fair and just basis for taxa tion. The work will be done under the direction of the tax commission with A. J. Maxwell at its head. It will take about 15 to 18 months. In view of this the general understand ing is that the extra session of the legislature, which will , be called by the governor for the purpose of working out a different tax rate, will be held probably in July 1:920. The State papers and numbers of public men who are well versed in parliamentary law, say that Hon. D G; Brummitt, speaker of the House, was the best, presiding officer in the recolloction of the present genera tion. Absolutely fair and impartial, there was not the semblence of an appeal from his rulings. STEM NEWS LETTER. Bullock and Day Will Conduct Ware , : house At Smithliehl. Miss Bessie Daniel, of Tally, Ho, is spending the week with friends in Oxford. 1 TfTfl - . 1 . - ... 1 ' 1 1 - - ii - i. , i. Mr. MI.-Gooeh spent the-weekiiion The scarcity ., of labor is his end with his sister, 'Mrs. D. S. Reid, in Winston-Salem Mr. Ralph G Taylor, formerly of Stem, but now with headquarters in Durham, was, on our streets Tues day. Mavor J. M. Bullock, who i; clerk of Camp No. 347, Stem, is at tending the annual convention of the Woodmen of the World at Salis bury this week. We are sorry to note the serious illness of Mrs. J. W. Stem, one of the excellent women of Tally Ho. Her sister, Mrs. Lynch, Of Oxford, is at her bedside Miss Mamie Spencer who has been on an extended visit to her sister, Mrs. L. F. Cotton, of Oxford, Route 6, left Monday for her home near Swan Quarter. For the past year she has been acting as a trained nurse in a Norfolk hospital and ex pects to follow this v6cation. Mr. J. M. Bullock, of our town, and Mr. L. F. Day, of Oxford have made arrangements to run a ware house in Smithfield this fall. Mr. Bullock is an experienced tobacco man and has been with Mr. I. W. Mangum, of Oxford, the past two seasons. Buck Stem, formerly in the tobacco business in Oxford, pronounc ed Mr. Bullock "the best judge oi tobacco in the county." At a recent meeting of the Vic torian Literary Society, the follow ing members were selected Stem High school in the State Triangle with Credmoor and Knap of Reeds: Miss Pauline Stem, and Edward Jones will defend the affirmative, and Miss May Barker and Wesley Veazey will defend the negative. We are attaching great faith to these de baters. It has not been definitely arranged with the other high schools yet where our negative will debate; we hope to debate on neutral ground however, with both teams. Otho T. Mangum arrived at home Sunday, after undergoing the try ing experiences of real war for sever al long months in the war zones in France. It will be recalled that he was severely wounded in action Nov. 10 th, and for long time much an xiety was felt by his relatives and friends. On this bloody day, his company while charging the Germans in one of the Verdun sectors was or dered to fall on ground and to pro tect themselves as best they could. Mangum bappenecl to be in a low piece of ground and fell face fore most to the earth. The German bul lets were playing a tune above him. Finally one struck him in the ngnt leB above the, thigh. lnfllcnS a se - vere flesh "wound. The big sale at Victor, Kaplon's is on in full blast. Mr. J. R. Avery the popular salesman, will be glad to see his many friends at this sale. THE COUNTY FAIR WELL BE CONTINUED All Indebtedness Against the Prop f erty Will Be Wiped Out. The fair grounds property which was to be sold last Monday at the Court House door was withdrawn. It is understood that arrangements have been made to lift the indebted ness against the property. "- In that event the biggest fair ever held in the county will be staged next October. If they are successful in getting the young man whom they have an eye on to run the fair it will be a grand success in every particular. Definite plans are being worked out and will be announced later. x BUYING AND SELLING FARMS. Several Granville County Farms Changed Hands During Past Fall and Winter. The Public Ledger asked a farmer the other day if it was the attractive price that induced' him to sell his farm, or was it for some other cause?. In answer to the inquiry, he said that it was next to ispossible to hire labor and carry on his farm like it should be. During the past two years he said, farming was profitable for all concerned, but the time is com ing, he saM, when there will be a slump in prices of everything grown on a farm. Another farmer told the Public Ledger that he sold his farm because it wa3 too large; that it was impos sible to get labor to work it, and the best thing that, he could do, he said, was to sell and buy a smaller farm. A few weeks ago a prominent Gran ville county farmer sold his farm with a view of moving to Vir ginia and taking a couple of dozen famalies with him and establishing a colony of Granville county people near Petersburg and Richmond. His idea in selling his farm he said, was to get near the markets. There is no doubt about it, the farmer is up against a tough proposi- chief discouragement, but this will adjust itself in a very short, time, it is hoped. There will be no slump in prices for several years to come, and the best thing that a farmer can do is to keep everlastingly at it. HESTER NEWS NOTES. Mr. McCullen Tunstall spent Tuesday in Oxford. Mr. Edgar Crews new house is nearing completion. We'll be glad when he moves in. The farmers of this section have been busy for the last few days haul ing fertilizer. Tobacco beds are sown and most every one has his wood cut. All seem ready to welcome the busy days of spring once more. Misses Kena and Ethel Crews, Clyde Haskins and Florence Green spent the week end in Durham. They report a lively time while gone. Miss Isabell Fleming has return ed from Richmond after quite an ex tended visit with her brother, Law rence. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming and children accompanied her home. V Misses Janie Clayton, Flossie McLean Annie Fleming, Emma Royal Tunstall, and Helen Stem, accompa nied by Messrs. McCullen and Spra gue Tunstall, Weldon, Dalby and Frank Stem, attended the play giv en at Oxford College Friday night. They pronounced the play a success. Hester school is going to have an old time, fiddlers' convention Fri day night, March' 21st. Music be ginning at 8 o'clock. All old fiddlers are invited to attend, also other string instrument players. Cash prizes will be offered to the winners. Their will be love letters for sale at the post office also your fortune in a "nut shell." Admission fee 25 cents for adults, 15 cents for chil dren. The proceeds are to go to the school. DEATH NOTICE OF JOHN BARLEYCORN PUBLISHED Remains May Be Viewed After July 1, 1919. Philadelphia, Pa., March 15. The following death notice of a "notor ious citizen" has been sent to the local press by Mrs. Bessie F. That cher, of Yardville, NJ. "Barley Corn After; a long ill ness, due to a fall from public favor John Barleycorn, at an advanced age Relatives and friends also the W. C T. U., Anti-Saloon League, all tem perance societies, and the general public are respectfully invited to at- ltena . January 16, 1920. Remains may be viewed after July 1, -1919. Inter ment in Oblivion cemetery. Kindly omit flowers. Papersr everywhere please copy," ; NUMBER 21. COLORED SOLDIERS BRING HONOR TO GRANVILLE Lieutenant .Cheatham Holds the "Croix de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross For Gallantry In Action. ' Two interesting soldiers just ar rived from overseas are Lt. Henry P. Cheatham, Jr., son of Dr. CheathanT superintendent of the colored Oxford Orphanage, and Dr. E. T. Ransom. Lt. Cheatham was with the Fiftv- ninth Division of infant brigaded with the French. He vol unteered in New York soon after war was declared, and . on reaching the war zone was placed with "sea soned" troops of France. He faced the Crown Prince's army in its pal-- miest days and he was in line of battle when his command broke the Hindenburg line at Soissons. Dr. Ransom is the son of a preach er; well known here. He was with the medical department of the army and was attached toy the 161st New York infantry, the insignia of his division being the rattlesnake, coil ed and ready to strike. Lt. Cheatham wears on his breast the "Croix de Guerre and Distinguish ed Service Cross for gallantry in ac tion," which was bestowed by the Le gion of Honor of France. Dr. Ransom and Lt. Cheatham wear their hondrs with becoming dignity. They are colored men of broad intellect and have been com missioned by the government to trav el and lecture. They will visit the schools and churches in the rural districts. ARMENIAN-SYRIAN RELDSF The Oxford Orphanage Children Do the Handsome Thing. The Armenian-Syrian Relief Fund association is now before the people of our county in a campaign for funds to save the people in the near east from starvation. Last week Miss McCormick was in our town in the interest of this cause and besides speaking to the people of the town, she went up te the Oxford Orphan age to speak to the children and workers there upon the subject. The children were very much im pressed, as were all who heard her, with what Miss McCormick told of the terrible conditions, the people are now living under, as well as the barbarous manner in which they have been treated by the Turks. Miss Mc Cormick asked the children to try and raise a fund to keep the little boys and girls over there from starv ing and it was decided to do the best we could to help out. During the next few days a can vass was had, and on Sunday the re port was made that $151.00 had been raised, wtih the prospect of more later. The children were very sym pathetic and one little' boy said he did not have a cent but did have an orange and wished to send that. The teacher said she would buy the or ange for five cents, so he sold it and put that in the collection. Another girl had $8.00 and put it all in and a good many children put in every penny they had. . I am writing this that the people of the county may know what our children and workers have done for this most worthy cause that it may be the means of stimulating those who read it to a fuller realization of their duty to the very destitute people of Armenia, and the near east. R. L. BROWN, Supt. TO BRAND THE KAISER. He Is To Be Officially Designated As the Arch Criminal. The Peace Conference having in charge investigations ' into responsi bility for the war have arrived at the conclusion that the burden shall be placed on the shoulders of the Kai ser. He is to be officially designated as "the arch criminal," and as the declaration is to be embodied in the treaties, his own people will find themselves under necessity of sub scribing to it. Full details of the committee report will be forthcom ing shortly and the public may then see the arrival of the day when the Kaiser shall be taken in hand and made to give an accounting. UNITS OF THE 81ST , EN ROUTE TO HOME 306th Trench Mortar Battery From Carolines and Florida Sail. Washington, March 12. Five transports bringing about 500 offi cers and 7,000 men were announced by the War Department as having sailed from France. On board the transport . Princess Matoika, due at Newport News Mar. 21, is the 306th Trench Mortar Bat tery of the Eighty-first Division, com posed of North and South Carolina and Florida troops.
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